Alison E. Cooley is Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, UK. Her publications include Res Gestae divi Augusti (2009), The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (2012), and Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook (2014).

• List of Illustrations viiList of Tables xiiNotes on Contributors xiiiAcknowledgements xviIntroduction: Setting the Scene 11 Italy Before the Romans 2Elena IsayevPart I The Impact of Rome – Unification and Integration 332 Rome’s Encroachment on Italy 35Rafael Scopacasa3 Italy and the Greek East, Second Century BC 57Celia E. Schultz4 The Social War 76Edward Bispham5 The Civil Wars and the Triumvirate 90Edward Bispham6 Coming to Terms with Dynastic Power, 30 BC–AD 69 103Alison E. Cooley7 Italy during the High Empire, from the Flavians to Diocletian 121Alison E. Cooley8 Late Roman and Late Antique Italy: from Constantine to Justinian 133Neil ChristiePart II Local and Regional Diversity 1552.1 Cultural Diversity 1579 Funerary Practices 159Emma‐Jayne Graham and Valerie M. Hope10 Diversity in Architecture and Urbanism 181Margaret L. Laird11 Language and Literacy in Roman Italy 217Kathryn Lomas2.2 Greek Italy 23512 Roman Naples 237Kathryn Lomas13 Magna Graecia, 270 BC–AD 200 253Kathryn Lomas2.3 Case-study: Becoming Roman in Cisalpina 26914 The Changing Face of Cisalpine Identity 271Clifford AndoPart III Town and Country 2893.1 Settlement Patterns 29115 Urbanization 293Joanne Berry16 Urban Peripheries 308Penelope J. Goodman17 Villas 330Nigel Pollard3.2 Case-studies of Towns and their Territories 35518 Republican and Early Imperial Towns in the Tiber Valley 357Simon Keay and Martin Millett19 Cosa and the Ager Cosanus 378Elizabeth Fentress and Phil Perkins20 Pompeii and the Ager Pompeianus 401Ray Laurence21 Ostia 417Janet DeLainePart IV Economy and Society 43922 Regional Interaction 441Rebecca R. Benefiel23 Agricultural Production in Roman Italy 459Robert Witcher24 Local Elites 483John R. Patterson25 Sub‐Elites 498Jonathan S. PerryIndex 513

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